{"id":1059507,"date":"2022-04-18T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/18\/kzn-saps-provincial-commissioner-community-safety-mec-to-visit-family-of-deceased-search-and-rescue-officer\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T10:22:55","slug":"kzn-saps-provincial-commissioner-community-safety-mec-to-visit-family-of-deceased-search-and-rescue-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/18\/kzn-saps-provincial-commissioner-community-safety-mec-to-visit-family-of-deceased-search-and-rescue-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"KZN SAPS provincial commissioner, Community Safety MEC to visit family of deceased Search and Rescue officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DURBAN \u2013 The KwaZulu-Natal Transport, Community Safety and Liaison MEC Peggy Nkonyeni, together with the provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, will be visiting the family of a Search and Rescue police officer who died while on duty on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Busisiwe Mjwara, 42, from the Pietermaritzburg Search and Rescue (SAR) Police Diving Unit, drowned on Sunday morning while conducting a search in the Msunduzi River for three victims that drowned earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

Mjwara experienced difficulty and drowned. She was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where she was declared dead upon arrival.<\/p>\n

Leah, a K9 from the Durban Central SAR unit, also died during the incident while trying to save Mjwara.<\/p>\n

Nkonyeni, and Mkhwanazi are expected to visit the residence at Thornville, Pietermaritzburg, Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The passing of Mjwara comes after last week\u2019s heavy rains that saw many people lose their lives and a large number of families displaced.<\/p>\n

According to the MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Sipho Hlomuka, the death toll currently stands at 443, with eThekwini having 399, Ilembe District 30, King Cetshwayo 5, Ugu 7 and uMzinyathi 2.<\/p>\n

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– Advertisement – DURBAN \u2013 The KwaZulu-Natal Transport, Community Safety and Liaison MEC Peggy Nkonyeni, together with the provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, will be visiting the family of a Search and Rescue police officer who died while on duty on Sunday. Sergeant Busisiwe Mjwara, 42, from the Pietermaritzburg Search and Rescue (SAR) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}